The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement

🌊A HISTORIC STEP FOR THE OCEAN After 8 years of discussions, negotiators at #COP16Colombia have agreed on new mechanisms to describe ecologically or biologically significant marine areas (EBSAs) and keep them up to date with new scientific information. #PeaceWithNature

📽️🏅Announcing the Green Film Festival Accra 2024 - Award Winners! 🌍 Disclaimer⚠️: After a thorough review process of all submissions, the award winners for the inaugural Green Film Festival have been selected based on their creativity, impact and alignment with our theme, Stories Spark Change. 🏆Our Best Documentary Award Goes to - Change Makers directed by Simone Kisiel Congratulations to director Simone Kisiel and the entire Majic Dogs Production  behind "Change Makers” for winning the Best #Documentary Award! This powerful documentary shines a spotlight on individuals and communities committed to driving environmental change. Through impactful interviews and on-the-ground footage, "Change Makers" reveals the strength and dedication of those leading the fight for a sustainable future. Thank you for bringing these inspiring stories to life and reminding us of the difference each of us can make. Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) Climate and Development Knowledge Network Jayde Lovell Rebecca Rhodes #GFFAccra2024 #ClimateAction #SustainabilityThroughFilm

Dr. Laurie Marker, who won the Tyler Prize in 2010, has spent five decades researching cheetahs and runs a big conservation project in the African country of Namibia. Here's what she thinks about COP16.

🌊 Are we giving back as much as we take from our oceans? ‘From nature, good things come, and to nature, bad things go.’ Our relationship with the ocean begins with resource extraction and ends with waste disposal, but it's time to rethink this cycle. Ussif Rashid Sumaila, professor of ocean and fisheries economics at The University of British Columbia and co-recipient of the 2023 The Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, advocates for an interdisciplinary approach—bringing together academics, governments, and NGOs to co-create solutions for the critical challenges facing our oceans. 🌍 The ocean is vital to our survival, so we need to work across disciplines to safely extract resources and reduce pollution for a sustainable future. 🌊🌿 #OceanConservation #Sustainability #InterdisciplinaryApproach

🚨 “Chemical warfare” against forests...on the front page of The New York Times. We caught JBS red-handed sourcing from a rancher who used the key compound from Agent Orange to poison 200,000 acres of forest amidst the world’s largest concentration of jaguars and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  We’re excited that the investigation is drawing such high profile attention after months of work. We hope it will drive action to prevent this kind of “War on Nature” from happening ever again. The story is pretty insane: A rancher, Claudecy Oliveira Lemes, was caught engaged in illegal deforestation and fined in 2019 by Brazilian authorities. That should have disqualified him from supplying any of the large cattle companies. Instead, he turned to herbicides to attempt to conceal his deforestation across an area the size of New York City because it is harder to detect from satellites than bulldozers or fire. But the chemicals not only destroy the forest, they leave a tell-tale chemical residue on the land and water. Fortunately, based on tips, the Brazilian environmental protection agency Ibama caught Lemes and is now seeking up to $1 billion in fines, a record in the state of Mato Grosso. Even after the deforestation was exposed, JBS still didn’t stop. We caught them selling cattle linked to Lemes as late as 2024. Companies like Stop & Shop, Costco Wholesale, and McDonald's’s have continued to do business with JBS despite repeated criminal behavior in their supply chain. We’re calling on them now to stop selling meat from any company that engages in this type of extreme negligence. There are 1.6 billion acres of previously deforested land where agriculture can expand without threatening native ecosystems. Time to only do business with companies responsible enough to deliver that. Huge thanks to reporters Jack Nicas and Flávia Milhorance for their outstanding work (read for free here): https://lnkd.in/emVhqmTX And of course my amazing colleagues who led this investigation Mariana Bombo Perozzi Gameiro, João Gonçalves, Carole Mitchell, Boris Patentreger, Alex Wijeratna, Maira Irigaray, Jackson Harris, Jordan McDonald, Sydney Jones. And our partners Joana Faggin and Marco Garcia of AidEnvironment and the incomparable André Campos, Poliana Dallabrida, and Marcel Gomes of Repórter Brasil.

Colombia is home to 10% of Earth's biodiversity—the variety of life that keeps our planet thriving. The country's newest national park protects that biodiversity, spanning 168,000 acres (the size of four Washington, D.C.s) and connecting the Orinoquía savannah with the Amazon. Around the park, TNC is working with landowners to manage farms and ranches in ways that heal nature and support diverse plants and animals. Read more about Manacacías: https://nature.ly/3NCS06d